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Re: gitk screenshots of complex history

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jul 27, 2007, 05:20 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.0.999.0707262219210.3442@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> I just compared my own history to Linus' linux-2.6 history.
> The kernel team can't hold a candle to this mess.

Rather on purpose, I might add. I've actually been fairly anal about having people maintain clean histories, to the point where I refuse to pull from trees that don't do a good enough job.

			Linus
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